Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was born at Ottery St Mary, Devon, the youngest son of a clergyman. He was educated at Christ’s Hospital School London, where he met Charles Lamb, and at Jesus College Cambridge, in 1794 he met Robert Southey and together they planned a Pantisocracy, an ideal community to be founded in America, but the project collapsed. He met Wordsworth in 1797, and in 1799 they published the Lyrical Ballads, one of the most revolutionary collections of poetry in the history of English literature. In his later years, Coleridge wrote primarily on philosophy, politics and literature.